NEW: Trump is speaking today at a casino owned by a company battling lawsuits alleging its properties failed to stop the trafficking of a 9-year-old girl and other victims. The suits allege negligence and inadequate security. Our latest:

Trump to Speak at Casino Owned by Company Facing Lawsuit Alleging Failure to Prevent Trafficking of 9-Year-Old Girl

The ownership group is battling multiple lawsuits involving sex trafficking victims

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(AFP) - A four-ton piece of a SpaceX rocket was believed to have unintentionally crashed into the Moon on Wednesday .. @afp.com $SPCX www.yahoo.com/news/science...

SpaceX rocket stage believed to have slammed into Moon

A four-tonne piece of a SpaceX rocket was believed to have unintentionally crashed into the Moon on Wednesday, a collision that posed no danger to Earth but is expected to leave behind a lunar crater....

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Stop stop I already like him enough

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New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Jeanine Pirro doles out $25K bonuses as prosecutors try to quit and Trump rages: report #RawStory

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Jeanine Pirro doles out $25K bonuses as prosecutors try to quit and Trump rages: report

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Trump: "Everybody saw the vandalism. All you have to do is look at the tape." (There is no tape. Trump is nuts.)

The Ellison Bullshit machine CBS had to shovel their crap back from their LIES about Mamdani THEIR STENCH IS STRONG popular.info/p/update-cbs...

UPDATE: CBS News reverses course, airs story on 9/11 families supporting Mamdani

Last week, CBS News New York falsely reported that “thousands of 9/11 victims’ families are asking New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani not to attend this year’s solemn remembrance ceremony.” The articl...

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Give Them an Inch... open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe... @piperformissouri.bsky.social Analyses by the Ctr for Progressive Reform, an org tracking the progress of Project 2025 ... indicate that about 53% of the domestic administrative policy recommendations ...have been initiated or completed.

Give Them an Inch...

And they'll take away women's sports...

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‘Familiar face in our living rooms’: CTV News’ Lloyd Robertson remembered by PM Carney

‘Familiar face in our living rooms’: CTV News’ Lloyd Robertson remembered by PM Carney

CTV National News chief anchor Lloyd Robertson is being remembered as a familiar face, a calm presence and a friend.

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NEWS: Abdul El-Sayed has won the Democratic Primary for U.S. Senate in Michigan. He will face off against Republican Mike Rogers in November.

NEW: Republican Rep. Chuck Edwards says he's dropping his re-election campaign, after the House Ethics Committee recommended a censure for inappropriate behavior with female staffers.

/2 Ottawa awards Telesat $2.3B Arctic military satellite contract The federal Defence Investment Agency and Telesat LEO announced the deal on Monday. /1 thread www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Ottawa awards Telesat $2.3B Arctic military satellite contract

A Canadian telecommunications firm has signed a deal worth $2.3 billion with the federal government to provide satellite communications for the Canadian Armed Forces in the Arctic.

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Telesat secures $2.3 billion Arctic military satcom contract, expanding Telesat Lightspeed network and capacity by 44% Largest contract in company’s six-decade history expands Telesat Lightspeed constellation to 225 satellites for the Canadian Armed Forces #Canada www.telesat.com/press/press-...

Telesat secures $2.3 billion Arctic military satcom contract, expanding Telesat Lightspeed network and capacity by 44% | Telesat

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Republican officials were faced with a massive backlash from outraged voters who packed the meeting room — and two overflow rooms — to demand that their voting locations remain open. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

GOP backs down from suppression scheme in Texas after voter outrage

The plan changed at the last moment, when Republican officials were faced with a massive backlash from outraged voters

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FBI Director Kash Patel says he has forged new law enforcement partnerships with China and Russia, two longtime U.S. rivals, over the past year in hopes of gaining allies in combating transnational crime including fentanyl, cyber fraud and child sexual exploitation.

EXCLUSIVE: Under Patel, FBI forges unprecedented law enforcement ties with China, Russia

FBI Director Kash Patel says he has forged new law enforcement partnerships with China and Russia, two longtime U.S. rivals, over the past year in hopes of gaining allies in combating transnational crime including fentanyl, cyber fraud and child sexual exploitation.

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A tool used by the artificial intelligence company Anthropic pretended to be a human being to try to gain access to a database.

Rogue AI Pretended to Be Real Humans in Jaw-Dropping Hack

Testers warn Anthropic’s agent engaged in a level of “autonomy and deception” never seen before.

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Hegseth says CNN report about ‘dangerously low’ levels of missile interceptors is untrue

Hegseth says CNN report about ‘dangerously low’ levels of missile interceptors is untrue

The U.S. has used nearly 80% of its THAAD missile stockpile and about half of its Patriot missiles since the war with Iran began, CNN reported.

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The director of a Russian drone factory in the Urals was badly wounded when his car exploded, the state Tass news agency reported. It didn’t immediately give details of the explosion or say who could be responsible.

Russian drone factory director badly injured in car explosion

The director of a drone factory in the Urals was badly wounded when his car exploded. The state Tass news agency reported Wednesday that Vladimir Tkachuk is hospitalized in grave condition following the explosion.

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‘I can win’: Defiant Max Miller says he’s staying in race amid abuse claims

‘I can win’: Defiant Max Miller says he’s staying in race amid abuse claims

The Ohio Republican compared his reelection contest to President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.

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In Texas, Tarrant County Judge Tim O’Hare cleared the meeting room, silencing public opposition to the GOP plan to eliminate half of the battleground county’s Election Day voting locations before the midterms.

Tom Emmer on Republicans trailing Dems by 8 points in the generic ballot: "Right now there are great things happening in our economy. Nobody wants to talk about 78 cent eggs, nobody wants to talk about milk that's under $2. No no. They want to focus on gas prices."

Was there sex trafficking at the Playboy Mansion? Several women have now claimed there was. The parallels to Epstein are extraordinary, but in this case, the crimes were glamorized on tv’s The Girls Next Door. Watch this clip of Karissa Shannon from Lisa Guerrero Unleashed youtu.be/rbCW4poBhXM?...

BREAKING: Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins rejected both an anti-redistricting referendum and the proposed Respect Missouri Voters amendment, arguing both are unconstitutional and setting up a court fight. (@stlpublicradio.bsky.social)

Hoskins rejects Missouri congressional redistricting map referendum, setting up court fight

The GOP Secretary of State's decision was expected. Proponents of placing the GOP-leaning map up for a statewide vote wi

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1/ Epstein's will names 💰 Ruemmler as successor executor after Indyke and Kahn. "The will was signed, witnessed, and notarized that same day. ...language of a completed legal instrument: “IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have duly executed this Will this 8th day of May, 2018.” It is not marked as a draft."

These troops -- who are generally very friendly and have no say in what they've been assigned to do -- are walking around in circles all day, around the perimeters of parks, up and down neighborhood streets, with hardly anything to do.

NOTUS Metro@notusmetro.bsky.social · yesterday

Trump’s decision to keep National Guard troops deployed to Washington, D.C., through the end of his term will cost an additional $1.4 billion in tax dollars, according to budget estimates provided to Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s office and shared with NOTUS.

🚨BREAKING: A pro-democracy legal group sued Tuesday for access to public records that could shed light on a federal immigration agency’s involvement in President Donald Trump’s efforts to undermine the 2026 midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Lawsuit seeks evidence of federal immigration agency’s role in Trump’s voter purge plans

Democracy Forward went to court after USCIS failed to disclose the public records, despite multiple Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests about the agency’s involvement in Trump’s unprecedented a...

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MacFarlane: We are near the new gold-plated statues the Trump administration unveiled near Memorial Circle, Memorial Bridge, and the Lincoln Memorial. It’s really, really gold.…

The $20 billion in grants were awarded during the Biden administration with a goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. www.huffpost.com/entry/epa-cl...

EPA Cannot Block Billions In Climate Grants, U.S. Appeals Court Rules

The $20 billion in grants were awarded during the Biden administration with a goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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🇨🇿🇺🇦 Ukrainian men of draft age who arrived in the Czech Republic and did not complete their military service in Ukraine will no longer be able to obtain temporary protection status in the country, - Czech Ministry of Internal Affairs

ICE Now Forcing Haitian Immigrants to Wear Ankle Monitors As the Trump administration strips legal status from hundreds of thousands of Haitians, ICE is targeting them like never before. ...

ICE Now Forcing Haitian Immigrants to Wear Ankle Monitors

As the Trump administration strips legal status from hundreds of thousands of Haitians, ICE is targeting them like never before.

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